There is a range of perfectly reasonable questions to which otherwise perfectly reasonable people make it their business to take offence. Self-identified ‘intellectuals’ seem especially prone to such sensitivity. Once, on a long-haul coach ride, an elderly person sitting next to me – on learning that I was a philosopher – asked ‘So, what’s your philosophy?’ Just as bad would have been if he’d asked me who my ‘favourite philosopher’ was, or whether I’d read Coelho’s The Published July 18, 2022 On writing Part of Writers at Work: How is writing made? How are writers made? All Writers at Work essays → Chris Fleming Chris Fleming is Associate Professor in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts at... Essays by Chris Fleming → ESSAY: CHRIS FLEMING ON MEMOIR What’s Your Philosophy? More like this